Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which has clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 1499 (14%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
	Difference: 71 (24%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X will be 40% faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 90624 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a small bit (approximately 6%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8704 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X should be a lot (more or less 37%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 570, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13824 (37%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.